Title Paying with plastic : the digital revolution in buying and borrowing / David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]
	©1999

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HG3755.8.U6 E94 1999	Available	---

Description	xii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-359) and index.
Contents	Plastic cards -- From sea shells to electrons -- A land of local banks, awash in paper checks -- The rise of payment cards -- From gourmets to the masses -- Everywhere you want to be, not everywhere they want to be -- Chicken's eggs and other economic conundrums -- System wars -- Issuer brawls -- Puzzles and paradoxes -- The antitrust wars -- Debit takes off (finally) -- And they don't take cash.
Subject	Credit cards -- United States.
	Credit cards.
	United States.
	Bank credit cards -- United States.
	Bank credit cards.
	Electronic funds transfers -- United States.
	Electronic funds transfers.
	Electronic commerce -- United States.
	Electronic commerce.
	Consumer credit -- United States.
	Consumer credit.
	Cartes de crédit -- États-Unis.
	Cartes bancaires -- États-Unis.
	Monnaie électronique -- États-Unis.
	Commerce électronique -- États-Unis.
	Crédit à la consommation -- États-Unis.
Added Author	Schmalensee, Richard.
ISBN	0262050625 hardcover alkaline paper